Spiral Maze!
Android, Miscellaneous, Roundups

Check Out These Cool Live Wallpapers, Games, and Tutorials by Fellow Learn OpenGL ESers!

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The community has been busy here at Learn OpenGL ES, as many visitors have been developing fantastic games, live wallpapers, and tutorials of their own! I’d like to highlight some of the work that I have come across in recent weeks; if you’re part of the community here and would like to be featured as well, please give me a shout-out via the contact form!

Spiral Maze!

Spiral Maze!Buggies! - Live Wallpaper

Spiral Maze! is a fun and addictive little game by Prodigen, with physics implemented with JBox2D. Prodigen is also behind the highly ranked and regarded Buggies! – Live Wallpaper, as well as AppShaker. All are definitely worth checking out!

Paperland

Paperland Live WallpaperExodus Live WallpaperLight Grid Live Wallpaper

Then there’s Joko Interactive, the developer behind the incredibly beautiful and attractive Paperland Live Wallpaper, Light Grid Live Wallpaper, Exodus Live Wallpaper, and many more!

Tutorials

I’d also like to give props to fellow community members Sankar and bluBee!

Sankar has been sharing his own work and tutorials here: http://code.google.com/p/my3dcube/

bluBee has been sharing his own work and tutorials here: http://code.google.com/p/blubee-opengles20/

Thanks for giving back to the community!

If you’re part of the community and would like to be featured as well, please let me know via the contact form!

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Android Lesson Eight: An Introduction to Index Buffer Objects (IBOs)
Android, Android Tutorials

Android Lesson Eight: An Introduction to Index Buffer Objects (IBOs)

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In our last lesson, we learned how to use vertex buffer objects on Android. We learned about the difference between client-side memory and GPU-dedicated memory, and the difference between storing texture, position and normal data in separate buffers, or altogether in one buffer. We also learned how to work around Froyo’s broken OpenGL ES 2.0 […]

Android, iOS, Miscellaneous, Roundups, WebGL

OpenGL ES Roundup, March 9, 2012

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Thank yous and mentions A big thank you goes to the following guys who have recently kindly featured Learn OpenGL ES: The Khronos Group. The Khronos Group is a non-profit, member-funded consortium dedicated to open and royalty-free standards for graphics, parallel computing, and dynamic media. There is a lot of cool stuff going on over […]

A screenshot of Lesson Seven, showing the grid of cubes.
Android, Android Tutorials

Android Lesson Seven: An Introduction to Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs)

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In this lesson, we’ll introduce vertex buffer objects (VBOs), how to define them, and how to use them. Here is what we are going to cover: How to define and render from vertex buffer objects. The difference between using a single buffer with all the data packed in, or multiple buffers. Problems and pitfalls, and what […]

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Android, Android Tutorials

Android Lesson Six: An Introduction to Texture Filtering

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In this lesson, we will introduce the different types of basic texture filtering modes and how to use them, including nearest-neighbour filtering, bilinear filtering, and trilinear filtering using mipmaps. You’ll learn how to make your textures appear more smooth, as well as the drawbacks that come from smoothing. There are also different ways of rotating […]

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